SECTORS OF FOOD SERVICE INDUSTRY

SECTORS OF FOOD SERVICE INDUSTRY

            SECTORS OF FOOD SERVICE INDUSTRY

1.     Hotels and other tourist accommodation   Provision of food and drink together with accommodation services  Often now referred to as the lodging industry

2.     Restaurants including conventional and specialist operations  Provision of food and drink, generally at a high price with high levels of service

3.     Popular catering including cafés, pizza, grills, specialist coffee shops, roadside restaurants and steak houses  Provision of food and drink, generally at low/ medium price  with limited levels of service and often high customer throughput

4.     Fast food including McDonald’s and Burger King  Provision of food and drink in highly specialised environment, haracterised by high investment, high labour costs and vast customer throughput

5.     Separate eating and drinking places(  Restaurants Popular catering  Fast food Takeaway) Categories usually defined by reference to three criteria: 1) level of service, e.g. quick service to full service or fine dining  2) extent of menu, e.g. limited to full 3) price range, e.g. low to high

6.     Takeaway including ethnic, spuds, KFC, snacks, fish and chips, sandwich bars, kiosks  Fast provision of food and drink

7.     Retail stores (Retail market)  Provision of food and drink as an adjunct to retail provision

8.     Events/banqueting/ conferencing/ exhibitions (Event market) Provision of large scale food and drink for events

9.     Leisure attractions (Leisure market) such as theme parks, museums, galleries, cinemas and theatres  Provision of food and drink to  people engaged in another pursuit

10.  Motorway service (Highway (interstate) marke)  stations  Provision of food and drink, together with    petrol and other retail services, often in isolated locations

11.  Industrial catering (Business/industry markets) either in-house operations or through catering/foodservice contractors  Provision of food and drink to people at work

12.  Welfare catering (Social caterer/ foodservice (education, healthcare, institutional and military)  Provision of food and drink to people in colleges, universities, the armed forces and to  eople through established social need

13.  Licensed(Separate drinking places but also some units included in Separate eating and drinking places) trade including public houses, wine bars, licensed clubs and members’ clubs Provision of food and drink in an  environment dominated by licensing requirements

14.  Transport catering (Transportation market) including railways, airlines and marine Provision of food and drink to people on the move

15.  Outdoor catering (Catering market ) (ODC) (or ‘offpremises catering’ or ‘event catering’) Provision of food and drink away from home base; suppliers usually associated with a major event